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Olena Kurilo, 52, was pictured outside her bombed-out home in a powerful photo that summed up the horror of a conflict in which thousands are feared dead.
The kindergarten teacher was then attacked by Russian trolls and responded to her claims in a video.
Victim
Olena Kurilo, 52, was pictured outside her bombed-out home in a powerful photo that summed up the horror of a conflict in which thousands are feared dead.
Olena said with her wounds still visible on her: ‘I am the victim of a missile attack.
‘I am a real person, I am not a fake. Many do not believe the reality of what is happening. They believe it was staged due to false reports.
‘But to prove that this is the truth, please look, - these are real scars, real wounds…
‘This is what’s left of my eye… I can’t see with it. Lots of small debris hit my eye.
‘I hope my sight returns and everything is fine.’
But with the heavy military shelling in her region, she cannot find a hospital that can treat her.
‘I want to say that I love my country very much.
Murder
‘I don’t want there to be murder and death on Earth and in our country [or] or children and civilians dying.’
He called for an end to mothers receiving ‘cargo-200’, the Russian euphemism for war corpses.
Olena’s daughter, Ekaterina, 27, also called on the media to stop spreading falsehoods about her mother, whose eyes were badly damaged by glass shards after a Russian missile hit her. apartment block in Chuhuev, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine.
“A lot of people on social media send me personal messages with different versions of who my mom is,” she said.
Killed
Two years ago, Olena nearly died when a military plane came down a stone’s throw from her apartment, killing 26 people.
She said: ‘After Putin made the statement of him recognizing LPR [Luhansk People’s Republic] and DPR [Donetsk People’s Republic], we carefully watched the situation.
‘We thought there was still some common sense left to negotiate. We never thought there would be a war.
‘Never in my life did I think I would look death in the face and see war. I could never imagine even in the worst nightmares.
That she was hit by a Russian attack is agonizing for her. She is half Russian, through her mother.
“I also speak Ukrainian well, but Russian is more familiar to me,” Olena said.
